The truth about Incognito mode
The Current powered by Kim Komando
WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc
4.6 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're being watched. Every time you go online, internet service providers track your every move. |
| 0:06.0 | Here in the United States, they're selling our browsing history. Until that changes, |
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| 0:57.4 | ExpressVPN.com slash Kim. Hello folks. Welcome to The Current. I'm Kim Commando. And this is the |
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| 1:18.9 | now at get kim dot com I decided to shake things up today I gave the usual |
| 1:23.8 | AI host the day off I told them to go defrag their hard drives, update their drivers, |
| 1:28.7 | or go hallucinate some electric sheep, whatever it is the other bots do for fun. I figured you |
| 1:33.6 | deserve to hear the news from the expert herself, or, well, the digital twin of the expert. All right, |
| 1:41.3 | systems are green. It's time to initiate the deep dive. And folks, I hate to say I told you so, but like I have been telling you for years, that browser you are using, yeah, its private mode is about as private as getting naked in a room with glass walls. And now we finally have the proof straight from the source code. Google just settled a $5 billion lawsuit that accused them of tricking millions of people |
| 2:01.9 | into believing incognito mode made them invisible online. Spoiler alert, it didn't. Not even close. |
| 2:08.7 | During the case, some internal Google emails came out that were honestly jaw-dropping. One engineer |
| 2:13.5 | literally wrote that they should stop using that little spy guy icon in Chrome because it |
| 2:18.2 | suggested a level of privacy that just did not exist. Another memo joked they should rename it, |
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